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Corporations have devastated the livelihoods of fishing communities like Odimodi, by spilling crude oil, discharging toxic effluents, and gas flaring. Image via the Coalition for Human Rights in Development.

How communities in sacrifice zones suffer environmental injustices in Mexico, Chile, Nigeria and Indonesia (analysis)

Daniela Sepulveda and Angélica Arellano 9 Apr 2025
Two pairs of N. Bald Ibis photographed at the wintering grounds on the Ethiopian highlands in November 2006 (© G. Serra).

The effort to save Syria’s northern bald ibis population failed, but much can be learned (analysis)

Gianluca Serra 28 Mar 2025
New study assesses threat to wildlife from cacao expansion in Congo Basin.

The environmental toll of the M23 conflict in eastern DRC (Analysis)

Fergus O’Leary Simpson | Lara Collart | Joel Masselink 7 Mar 2025
REDD+ project, Madre de Dios, Peru. Photo by Yoly Gutierrez/CIFOR

What have we learned from 15 years of REDD+ policy research? (analysis)

Maria Brockhaus / Grace Wong / Moira Moeliono 7 Mar 2025
Indonesian rainforest in Bukit Tigapuluh, Sumatra. Photo by Rhett A. Butler.

UN biodiversity decision 16/2 is ‘unencumbered by economic thinking’ (analysis)

Joseph Henry Vogel 21 Feb 2025
In September, Moo Deng went viral, becoming famous for her playful, no-holds-barred attitude.

Has the Moo Deng craze helped wild pygmy hippos at all? (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 3 Feb 2025
Mangrove restoration, Jiquilisco Bay, El Salvador. Image courtesy of Mangrove Action Project.

Lessons from successful mangrove forest restoration in El Salvador (analysis)

Alfredo Quarto 27 Jan 2025
Oracle in Rumtse village, Ladakh, India, where decision-making involves spirits of the land and water.

If all life mattered, what would decision-making look like? (Analysis)

Shrishtee Bajpai and Ashish Kothari 25 Oct 2024
The Tonle Sap River in Phnom Penh.

Cambodia’s Funan Techo Canal project: A catalog of worries (analysis)

Pham Phan Long 15 Jul 2024
A car burns with two people inside, after a Russian bombardment in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Thursday, April 21, 2022. Image by AP Photo/Felipe Dana via Flickr.

Nature-based recovery needed for Ukraine’s damaged protected areas (analysis)

Hannah L. Timmins 22 Dec 2023
Altasea is a marine renewable energy and conservation technology hub on an old wharf in the port of Los Angeles. Image courtesy of Altasea.

Marine conservation technology hub rises from old L.A. wharf (analysis)

David Helvarg 20 Dec 2023
Mt Guiting-Guiting range, seen from Magdiwang.

Nickel mine threatens Philippines biodiversity hotspot on Sibuyan Island (analysis)

Jake Willis 6 Dec 2023
A monster wave at Newhaven, East Sussex, in the UK, during Storm Eunice. Image by StormChaserLiam / Twitter.

Climate change threatens the North Atlantic’s currents, ecosystems and stability (analysis)

Pitamber Kaushik 7 Nov 2023
Sumatran rhino calf in Way Kambas, Indonesia. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Amid government inaction, Indonesia’s rhinos head toward extinction (analysis)

Jeremy Hance 27 Jul 2023
North Pacific right whales south of Kodiak Island, Alaska, 2021. Image captured by scientists working under NOAA permit 20465.

How do you study one of the world’s rarest whales?

Dana Wright 25 Apr 2023

Emmanuel Macron’s “Biodiversity Credits”: What are we talking about? (commentary)

Alain Karsenty 16 Dec 2022
Rainstorm over Turkana, Kenya. Photo by Rhett A. Butler

Climate change could force 1.2 billion to move by 2050. Is the world even remotely ready?

Robert Muggah 9 Dec 2022

Should more wildlife trade be legal and regulated? It’s complicated, say scientists

James Fair 11 Nov 2022
The Gabonese and Congolese forests help to create the rainfall in the Sahel. Image by Axel Rouvin via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

Tracking the moves of Asian forestry companies in Central Africa (analysis)

Alain Karsenty 21 Oct 2022

Malawi steps up action against illegal charcoal trade (analysis)

Nicholas J. Parkinson 12 May 2022

Coalition against online wildlife trafficking shares little evidence of success (analysis)

Toby McIntosh 25 Mar 2022
Gold mining in the Amazon. Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

Brazil’s illegal gold rush is fueling corruption, violent crime and deforestation

Robert Muggah 14 Jan 2022

For World Gorilla Day 2021, a conservation success story

Tara Stoinski 23 Sep 2021

Should tree plantations count toward reforestation goals? It’s complicated

Gianluca Cerullo 10 Sep 2021

Can the Japanese seafood industry reconcile their finances with nature?

François Mosnier 15 Jun 2021

To save chocolate’s future, ‘start now and go big’ on agroforestry

Cathy Watson 17 May 2021

Infrastructure plans imperil Latin America’s forests: Analysis

Mongabay.com 2 Sep 2020

Though forests burn, trees retake farmland globally as agroforestry advances

Patrick Worms 10 Aug 2020

Response to one pandemic, COVID-19, has helped ease another: Air pollution

Liz Kimbrough 20 Mar 2020

Analysis: Floating solar power along the dammed-up Mekong River

David Brown 3 Dec 2019

Farmer-managed natural regeneration: the fastest way to restore trees to degraded landscapes?

Cathy Watson 29 Jun 2018

Citizen science makes easy work of penguin time-lapse image bounty

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 28 Jun 2018

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